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ChatGPT and fake news

Aug

1

2023

The scientific work of members of our Department was published in the Economics and Business Review journal. The article “Artificial intelligence – friend or foe in fake news campaigns” focuses on analyzing the impact of large language models (LLM) on the phenomenon of fake news. On the one hand decent text‐generation capabilities can be misused ...

First place in the international competition CheckThat!

Jul

27

2023

The OpenFact project team took part in the CheckThat! organized as part of the international conference CLEF 2023 (Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum). The method proposed by our scientists took first place. This method detects English sentences that need to be reviewed because of potential misleading and therefore are worth fact-checking.

Poznań Science and Art Festival

May

28

2023

During the 26th Poznań Science and Art Festival, members of the Department of Information Systems PUEB conducted a lecture on recognizing false information on the Internet. Participants had the opportunity to ask questions and share their experiences, which further enriched the discussion and made the event not only educational, but also interactive.

ENIGMA Metropolitan Science Festival

May

19

2023

Members of the Department of Information Systems conducted lectures and workshops during the five editions of the ENIGMA Metropolitan Science Festival. Over 1,000 students from various schools in Poznań and Szamotuły took part in the events. The materials presented during the Festival included issues related to the scientific research of our Department in the field ...

The highest score for the OpenFact project

Mar

14

2023

The OpenFact project is run by the team of our Department in cooperation with technological and substantive partners, including: Google, Facebook, Bright Data, Harvard University, as well as leading fact-checking organizations in Poland. During the evaluation of the first phase of the INFOSTRATEG program of the National Center for Research and Development, in the field ...

WiTIwKP 2022 conference

Oct

16

2022

During the 9th of the National Scientific Conference “Knowledge and information technologies in creating entrepreneurship” (WiTIwKP), the SocialScan tool supporting the verification of credibility of information on social networks was presented. This year’s edition of the conference was held on October 6-7 in a hybrid mode (stationary in Olsztyn near Częstochowa and remotely).

Researchers’ Night 2022

Oct

11

2022

Workshops “Truth or fake news: how not to be fooled on the Internet” were conducted during the Researchers’ Night 2022. As part of these workshops, it was possible to learn about the complexity of scientific research in the field of identifying false information, and at the same time about interesting issues related to the search ...

MIUE 2022 conference

Sep

28

2022

During the eleventh edition of the Professor Zbigniew Czerwiński National Scientific Conference “Mathematics and IT at the services of economics” (MIUE 2022), a lecture entitled “Can social media defend against fake news?” was given. The presentation cointained research on the detection of fake news using artificial intelligence methods. This year’s edition of the MIUE conference ...

Wzlot 2022 – Wikimedians Spring Meetup

Apr

28

2022

On April 22-24, in the Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów, the conference “Wikimedians Spring Meetup 2022” was held. The event consisted of lectures, training sessions, workshops, work on project issues for people editing Wikimedia projects (including Wikipedia, Wikidata and others). The conference was organized by the Polish public benefit organization “Wikimedia Polska”.